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this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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I also care that there is very little content. I've tried getting conversations going on niche topics. My posts get upvotes, but no responses. It's discouraging.
That's the downside of having few users. In terms of basic principles, Lemmy is no different from other social media apps: The lion's share just consumes, few comment, hardly anyone posts anything. In fact, it's anything but a community approach, but rather the merit of a few "power users" who provide the vast majority of the content.
In addition, there are no monetization opportunities whatsoever. Many people see this as a good thing, which is understandable, but in fact there are perfectly normal people who try to make a living from their content or at least want to earn some extra money. I don't think there will ever be any understanding for this on this platform. Therefore, there will never be such content here, because without monetization opportunities, there is no motivation to provide such content here instead of on mainstream social media platforms. I can imagine that the Fediverse could develop remuneration models that are much fairer and more sustainable, but this will fail from the outset due to ideology.
I think that's a shame, but I think there is 0 chance this could even be discussed in the Fediverse.
The subreddits that I'm part of are too small for monetization. There are prolific posters (like our pugjesus), but nobody is making money from it.
Yes, that's clear. I didn't mean to imply that anyone here is getting paid, except for the operators of instances and Foss developers—and they presumably get far too little for their efforts.
I'm referring to Reddit: niche subreddits didn't get a lot of traffic, and prolific posters wouldn't see money for their efforts.